Official Planetside2 thread

It’s the game you’ve been waiting to play your entire life. It’s the game you imagined but never thought would be possible: A tight, brutal first-person shooter throwing thousands of players into endless battle across whole continents. A completely free MMO with the highest production values of any game in its genre, ever. Incredibly deep RPG-style customization, with hundreds of class-redefining gear options, abilities, weapon and vehicle upgrades for almost any role you can imagine: the fighter pilot, the dropship jockey, the treadhead, the stealth hunter-killer, the heavy infantry slayer, the commander leading hundreds or a single tight-knit platoon, and on and on. Just over a month into beta, most of the guns, vehicle enhancements, and wargear are still to be unlocked (yet more are added every patch); still the game is so good it’s become hard for many goons to stomach playing anything else.

I've seen tank columns blitz across rolling dunes to outflank the enemy, deploy into siege mode, and slaughter hundreds of infantry with massed artillery; mech troopers burn and blast paths of carnage with flamethrowers, chainguns, and mega-shotguns through mile-high domed artificial jungles; jetpack teams hunt hapless snipers along the craggy ravines beneath the Crown; hundreds fight to a standstill in meatgrinder base sieges until a skilled platoon turns the tide.

I've also seen 10-odd coordinated goons from these very forums hold surrounded outpost compounds deep in hostile territory against entire outfits, despite all the bombers, dropships, armor, and troops at the enemy’s disposal.

The head developer is a fricking goon, and his team has implemented every good balance idea put forward so far; here’s a video of Higby explaining the game.

I can say without reservation that this is the best game I’ve ever played, and it’s only in beta.

Planetside 2 will feature an ingame cash shop where you can buy cosmetic items, shortcuts (like experience boosters and extra resources) as well as sidegrades for your weapons. You will not pay to win. You will pay to make your gunship look like a flying frickin pimp wagon.

I had a good time with it last night. Probably stayed up a little too late with it. Me second or third spawn had me with about 100 other people storming across a bridge with tanks and air support to take a base. Once on the other side the foot soldiers flanked through the rocks while the tanks went up the road. Pretty legit experience.

Built a PC back in August for a little less than $1000 (now the parts look to be less than $800).

I bought an i5-3570K Intel CPU ($219) 8 GB of DDR3-1600 RAM ($40) a GB AMD Radeon HD 7850 vid card ($190) and an SSD "Drive" to install it on. I only went with a 64 GB drive, enough for windows and this game with about 10 GB left. ($66) The rest of the money went towards motherboard, case, power supply and other little bits.

Runs everything on High in something like 1600x1200 resolution, well above 30 fps pretty much non stop. I've not had any noticeable frame drops. It's usually closer to 60 fps.

Yes this game is mind blowing fun. rolling lastnight with the Goons on NC Mattherson. 15 tanks and looking at a couple sundies as well, pan up and see multiple gals and reavers all in one big wave hauling arse to the next base to eff up some vanu and TR.

I am SERIOUSLY considering subbing to this game to get the bonus exp and station cash. I have only dropped 10bux so far.

I am going to main an engineer i think. I love dropping ammo, repairing stuffs and dropping a turrent and unloading on fools.

I also Certed the Sundy so that it can deploy and be spawn point.

I am looking for recommendations for weapons to unlock on the sundy besides the basic. i am thinking the grenade launcher for infrantry and something for Armor.

If the piston shotgun you are talking about is the Jackhammer, definitely test it out before you buy it. I had it in beta and it sucked balls. The Mauler was much better. I'm not familiar with all of the names though, so I may not be thinking about the same thing.